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Buckwheat Zydeco comes to D.M. on Tuesday

Buckwheat Zydeco is considered the lead ambassador of the Louisiana Zydeco sound, which blends Cajun music, blues and rhythm and blues. The band has released the three largest-selling Zydeco albums of all time and was awarded a Grammy for 2009’s “Lay Your Burden Down.”

Civic Music welcomes renowned trio

The globe-trotting Goldstein-Peled-Fiterstein Trio (piano, cello, clarinet) will play a varied pro­gram — Beethoven, Liszt, Debussy, Brahms and the late Mark Kopytman of Israel — for the Civic Music Association concert.

'Cinderella' dances to her prince

Can ballerinas wear glass slippers? We will find out when Ballet Des Moines presents “Cinderella.” The company’s seven pros, 10 pre-profes­sionals and 120 students will leap and lunge to Prokofiev’s intricate fairy-tale score, performed by the Des Moines Community Orchestra.

Sip and celebrate at Art Noir's Hue event

7 p.m. Friday at the Des Moines Art Center, 4700 Grand Ave. $15, $10 for members, which includes appetizers and one cocktail. www.desmoinesartcenter.org

Art Noir’s Hue celebration will transform the lobby with green light and projections from the art center’s permanent collection. The event includes drinks, dancing and a short tour of the “Jasper Just: This Is a Landscape of Desire” exhibit.